Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Americanafest Pre-Grammy Salute to Lucinda Williams at the Troubadour

Now that’s what I call music! The show was the anti, a negation of the Spotify Top 50, everything you read and hear, in this world women overwhelmed, songs were king (queen!) and there were no hard drives, all authentic instruments, and no dancing, although there was shimmying! Funny to see music at the Troubadour. […]

School Songs Playlist

https://spoti.fi/40mDPaC “School” Supertramp   “Smokin’ In the Boys Room” Brownsville Station   “School’s Out” Alice Cooper   “Teacher I Need You” Elton John   “Kodachrome” Paul Simon   “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” Ramones   “Be True to Your School” The Beach Boys   “New Girl In School” Jan & Dean   “Getting Better” The […]

Musicares-Berry Gordy & Smokey Robinson

It’s the music business’s greatest night. As for the music… That’s right, you can do a year’s worth of business in one night. Because EVERYBODY is there. Well, not everybody, but a ton of movers and shakers, and a bunch of overdressed nobodies. That’s how you can tell they’re not in the business, by the […]

The Billboard Power 100

https://www.billboard.com/h/billboard-2023-power-100-executives-list/ The paper of record is as out of touch as the Grammys! Never have the labels and the people who run them had less power. But there they are at the top of the chart, as if it were still the 1990s and the internet was something old men were unaware of and Napster […]